Top pop from seventeenth-century England. Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here. See also User’s Guide.

Parker, Martin (Fl. 1624–1647)   Passinger, Thomas   Thackeray, William   Employment - Female  

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114 The Woman to the PLOW;/ And the Man to the HEN-ROOST [Euing 397]